Trojan horse software was used by businesses and private investigators to pry into an unknown number of computers.

Houston television station KPRC aired their investigation of Yahoo!’s chat services, showing an unsettling relationship between corporate advertising and various child sex chat rooms.

The internet is a wonderful thing, except for a few small details. When you register your first domain name, you get your introduction to one of them. There’s a lot of information they want. Your name, your email address, your physical address, your phone number.

Reports are surfacing concerning a major update occurring at Yahoo’s search engine. However, some feel this may be just a run-up to the real thing.

When Walt Disney said “It all started with a mouse,” he didn’t mean the optical type with a scroll wheel.

Since the announcement of Google’s foray into the printed word industry, Google Print has been followed by controversy. Because of the methods being used to populate the Google Print index, many are worried about copyright issues as well as the ability to view pages in the GP result pages.

As chief executive Nobuyuki Idei and three other executives depart the electronics maker, the company disclosed their total retirement package.

1. Collect leads with your autoresponder. You will get an e-mail digest of everyone’s e-mail addresses who requests information from your autoresponder.

A special search engine optimization case study on manufacturers shows how any business can do a better job with web site page titles and META data. New case studies explain how to improve them.

The Age of Information is yielding some interesting art projects. Take, for example, Swiss “interactive artists” Beat Brogle and Philippe Zimmerman’s online search endeavor “OneWordMovie,” which marks an intriguing foray into image collections.

Yahoo today released its corporate guidelines/best practices for employee blogs.

Yesterday, accounting firm Arthur Andersen’s conviction was overturned by the United States Supreme Court. The conviction was for obstructing justice by destroying documents related to Enron before it fell apart.

Microsoft has released the next version of its RSS aggregator at Start.com. They had said that the new version would be …

The Redmond-based software and game console company will work with Adobe, Canon, Fujifilm, and Nikon to better support digital cameras.

Yukos Founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of six out of seven charges of fraud and tax evasion when the reading of his verdict finally concluded.

John’s a freelance photographer in Ohio who called to tell me of his frustration with the advertising and promotional campaigns he has tried in the last couple of years.

Marc Orchant discusses how Weblogs Inc. and Boing Boing are integrating trackbacks via Technorati, thereby avoiding link spam.

Jobs end, especially for professionals-and usually without warning.

The world of search engines always has something new to offer; whether it’s GooglePrint or MSN’s Virtual Earth or in this case Yahoo’s Mindset. The new Mindset feature adds a new relevance dimension to one’s search based on a research facet or a shopping facet.

Many clients of Sidhe Communications, http://www.sidhecommunications.com, want to know how to increase web traffic.

There is a great post over at The Return of Design that shows the danger in your site becoming too big to quickly in the eyes of Search Engines.

The head of software technologies at the EU Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate General attacked major US firms.